Wei Lin
Lecturer at Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Lin is a data science and statistics educator and researcher with eight years of experience bridging academia and applied AI, currently lecturing at Simon Fraser University. He has held faculty roles at the University of Toronto and Thompson Rivers University, completed a PhD in Statistics, and led a startup as Chief Data Scientist and co-founder, bringing practical product experience to the classroom. His teaching philosophy—“full contact at full speed”—reflects a hands-on, immersive approach that emphasizes student empowerment and real-world problem solving. Based in Vancouver, he combines rigorous statistical research with startup-driven analytics, making him equally comfortable designing curricula, mentoring students, and translating complex models into actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at University of Toronto
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Becky07/STAT360
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Repo for STAT360/361, spring 2023 at SFU.
Contributions:71 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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Becky07/TIMIT_NIST_to_WAV_Processing
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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